Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 23:42:37 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Cc: fenner@parc.xerox.com (Bill Fenner), kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de Subject: Re: getopt(1) man page woodoo Message-ID: <199610222142.XAA19920@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <96Oct22.141020pdt.177529@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> from Bill Fenner at "Oct 22, 96 02:10:14 pm"
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As Bill Fenner wrote: > I can't get FreeBSD's nroff -man to print bold dashes at all; > > .B -- > .B \-\- > .B \&-\&- > .B \& -- > > all produce nothing. I've also noticed it now. Anyway, the .B's are ugly anyway (and i think mdoc(5) mentions that only very few direct troff requests are safe inside the mdoc package). I've replaced them by .Ql's which makes their emphasize much clearer. The getopt(1) man page suffered from some other idiosyncrasies, e.g. the usage of .Op where it should have been .Ar or .Fl. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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